Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-01

of scientists. This is the power on which
the Spiritualists have founded their re-
markable theories, and which has latterly
received the attention of manV anxious
TO Investigate the mysteries of the invisi-
BILE and dabole with the secret lore of
psYchial mysteries.
SUBTLE FORCE IN ALI BODIES.
And yet the writer THINKS there is an
Und0ubted probability, which further in
TestigatiOns increase, that such phenOme-
IA are mainly due to the existence Of
magnetic fluid impregnsting all organic
bodies, which, although not analogous in
every respect to electricity, yet resem bles
it in May particulars. This hypothesis,
he says, was virtually cOrroooTated
by Riechenbach, who announced the
discovery OF subtle force to
which ne gave the name of Cd, and
which ne stated permeated all nature and
manifested itself in luminous emanation
at the poles of magnets and crystals and
wherever chemical action is going on
The human body, according to his state
ment, was surrounded by this subtle
force, which was visible to certain per-
sons called "sensitives," and manifested
itself more particularly at the tips of the
fingers in kind of luminous vapor, and
possessed positive and negative poles as
in magnetism, being negative on the right
side and positive on the left.
CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS.
II was DR.. Mayo, however, who de-
monStrated the modus Operandi of this
newly revealed force, and establish9d an
objective proof of it's existence EhiOk
had heretofore only lived in the BRAINS OF
its prOgenitOrs. The experiments winch
he conducted with Herr Caspari are of SO
mysterious, and at the same time Of SO
interesting and conclusive a character,
that it is remarkable they are not more
universally known.
Taking q gold ring in his hand, he at
tsched to it q piece of silk, by which he
held the ring suspended over a piece Of
silver at a distance of about half an inch,
when, after few uncertain movements,
the ring began TO OsCillate to and from
the operator.
Removing the silver, he then suspended
the ring over the finger of his left hand,
when it assumed another motion; and,
again, having held the ring over the
thumb of the same hand, he discovered
that this rotary motion was reversed.
ADDITIONAL DISCOVERIES.
Astonished at these eccentricities, they
/
ment5 and after while with the follow
ing results:
a ring, a fragment OF shellGc, or any
other substance suspended by a thread
or piece of silk, the other end of which
was wound around the first joint of the
fore1nger, they termed an Odometer. The
materials on which they experimental
with the Od0meter they termed the cd
F ppOcjata5 pF cold oliver
lead, zinc, copper, Goals, bones, charcoal,
sealing wax, etc, but the material which
proved most eficaciOus as an odometer
+ consisted of q piece of shellaC about an
/ inch long, and by this means the follow
/ ing results, selected from q great number
of experiments, were adduCed:
Odometer suspended from the fore
finger held over heap of sOvereIgns.
Observation-Disclosures oscillations.
Experimenter, continuing above eX-
pertinent, takes with his Unengaged hand
the hand of person CT the opposite sex,
Result-trsnsverse oscillations of the
odOmeter.
Then, the experiment being continued,
let a person of the sex of the expert
menter take and hold the unengagcd hand
Of the second party. R9sult-lOngitudi-
nal oscillations of the Odometer.
The first experiment being repeated,
and the longitudinal oscillations estsb-
Iished, touch the fOrefnger which is en-
gagged in the OdOmeter with the forefDgeI
/ of your other hand. ResUlt-the Oscilla-
/ tiUns becomes transverse.
/ Hold the OdOmeteT over the tip O. the
/ fOrefnger of your disengaged hand. Re
sult-rOtary motion in the direction OF
the hands of q watch.
/ Hold the odometeT over the thumb Of
your disengaged hand. Result-rotarY
/ motion against that OF the hands of q
watch. Hold up the forefnger and
/ thumb of the disengaged hand, theil
/ points being two and half inches apart
/ Hold the odometer in the center of line
which would Join the points of the finger
J and thumb. Result-OSCillatiOnS trans
verse to the line Indicated.
THE FORCE NOT CONFINED TO MAN.
/ These experiments are so simple that
they are capable of being verified by the
Youngest reader. They do not, however,
exhaust the phenomena revealed by the
/ odometer. The substitution Ofa Woman's
HAIR in place of the silk medium produces
an entire reversal of the oscillations, and
8 Transverse motion will ensue, as If the
operator had grasped with his Olsen
gagged hand the hand of person of the
4oppOsite sex. Precisely the same change
7 is produced If a woman take the OdOmeteI
( in her right hand, using a mans hair as
the suspending cord. This remarkable
property of Cd is not merely confined to
man, but if the hair of a horse or mare
be substituted for the suspending medium
the same marked popularity will be
found to exist.
EXPLAINING PHENOMENA.
Once grant the existence of q species
of spiritual efhuvium, continues the
writer, and we begin TO arrive at the So
luton of many of those problems which
have hitherto been considered lneXplica-
ole. The mystery of the divining rod
the believers in which claim the oCcGlt
power of detecting the proximity of veins
of metal and of underground currents Of
water by means Of g forKed hazel tWig-
so long regarded as d remnant of the
! Dark Ages-nOw appears ina more plaus-
ibIe disguise. The ecCentriCides of table
turning, and exhibitions of sO-Called
spirit manifestations, now receive the
garb of scientific dress. The ancient
belief IA fascination, charms and the
/ evil eye, or nal OCChiO (Which belief is
sill largely cherished IN the south OF
Europe, j. immediately accounted for
Even The phenomenon of Glove at first
+ sight" may herein fnd explanation,
/ Plato sought to explain this mystery by
/ the notion that sopls were united in )
/ pre-existant state, and that love is the
yegrning Of the spirit 20 reuniCe with the
/ spirit with which il formerly made one,
/ and which It discovers on earth.
CAN SUCH THINGS BE?
In conclusion the writer pleads for
considerate examination of tht subject as
follows:
The public mind is so accustomed to